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Raghu Angadi commented on HADOOP-1134:
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+1 for light weight invalidation. From my understanding of filecache from Owen and Mahadev,
filecache requirements are not very strict (thats good). It does not really validate cache
every time the file is read. What it wants to know is that "whether a given file has changed
between the time Job tracker starts and task tracker fetches the same file first time".
That said, DFS can provide something like getChecksum().
> Block level CRCs in HDFS
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>
> Key: HADOOP-1134
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-1134
> Project: Hadoop
> Issue Type: New Feature
> Components: dfs
> Reporter: Raghu Angadi
> Assignee: Raghu Angadi
> Attachments: bc-no-upgrade-05302007.patch, DfsBlockCrcDesign-05305007.htm, readBuffer.java,
readBuffer.java
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> Currently CRCs are handled at FileSystem level and are transparent to core HDFS. See
recent improvement HADOOP-928 ( that can add checksums to a given filesystem ) regd more about
it. Though this served us well there a few disadvantages :
> 1) This doubles namespace in HDFS ( or other filesystem implementations ). In many cases,
it nearly doubles the number of blocks. Taking namenode out of CRCs would nearly double namespace
performance both in terms of CPU and memory.
> 2) Since CRCs are transparent to HDFS, it can not actively detect corrupted blocks. With
block level CRCs, Datanode can periodically verify the checksums and report corruptions to
namnode such that name replicas can be created.
> We propose to have CRCs maintained for all HDFS data in much the same way as in GFS.
I will update the jira with detailed requirements and design. This will include same guarantees
provided by current implementation and will include a upgrade of current data.
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